Russian portals receive millions of visits from Estonia every month

Propastop reviewed the traceable numbers of Russia’s online channels.

Postimees is not the problem

Criticism of the Postimees Group’s decision to broker advertising to Russian TV channels, shifted the focus away from the real problem.

This is how the propaganda machine is controlled

Let us summarize recent articles in the world media that open up the hidden backdrop of the functioning of the Russian propaganda media.

Top 5: Propaganda attacks launched from Estonia

Let us list five cases where news from local propaganda portals Baltnews and Sputnik have damaged Estonia’s reputation. What can be done to control such portals?

„Child soldiers“ story being used to attack us again, this time from the east

The scandalous photo report of the Italian photographer Tomaso Clavarino on voluntary paramilitary associations in the Baltic nations has been continued in the Russian media now by them using the USA publication The Atlantic, so that several biased propaganda news stories have taken shape.

New falsifications in the airwaves: The Jõhvi cemetery story has further developments.

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the occurrences at the Jõhvi cemetery, where a letter sent to the county administration by private individuals received biased reports in the Russian media. New elements were added last week to the case where on the 4th of July.

Kiviõli glacier boulder’s saga

Propastop tried to figure out whether the defacement of a memorial stone in Kiviõli (small Estonian town) and the subsequent media coverage was a deliberately prepared information operation. We restored the event timeline and gave a comment based on that.